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And the wordוַ דְּבַרof YHWHיְהוָהTsevaotצְבָאוֹתcameיְהִיto me,אֵלַיsaying,לֵאמֹר
Zechariah 7:4
Study it in the app“And the word of YHWH Tsevaot came to me, saying,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Zechariah 7:4, word by word
- And the wordדְּבַרdevar
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devar” appears- of YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- Tsevaotצְבָאוֹתtsevaot
Tsevaot
A name of God: the one who commands the armies of heaven and earth.
Where else “tsevaot” appears- cameיְהִיyehi
become
To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.
Where else “yehi” appears- sayingאמֹרmor
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appears
The context
3to speak to the priests who belonged to the house of YHWH Tsevaot and to the prophets, saying, “Shall I weep in the fifth month, abstaining, as I have done these so many years?”
4 · This verse (above)
5“Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and in the seventh, and this for seventy years, did you truly fast for me, for me?